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The 41-year-old, who now lives in Berlin, has been nominated for his solo exhibitions No Medals, No Ribbons and Modern Art Oxford and Enclosures at Camden Art Centre.

From BBC • Apr. 27, 2023

For Griffiths, the poet who best represented the move from a supposedly free-roaming England to one of patchworked agricultural exclusion was John Clare: "The Enclosures spiked the nest of Clare's psyche," she writes.

From The Guardian • Apr. 28, 2013

A solution occurred to me: For coastal cities, we should try a system I call OMEGA: Offshore Membrane Enclosures for Growing Algae.

From Slate • Sep. 3, 2012

Don Ross, founder and chairman of Cardinal Shower Enclosures, offers a particularly telling example.

From New York Times • May 25, 2012

Yea, the Commons are as truly ours by the last excellent two Acts of Parliament, the foundation of England’s new Righteous Government aimed at, as the Elder Brothers can say the Enclosures are theirs.

From The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth As Revealed in the Writings of Gerrard Winstanley, the Digger, Mystic and Rationalist, Communist and Social Reformer by Berens, Lewis Henry